As its plan to release 1,000 original movies and tv series by the end of 2018 reaches the halfway point, Netflix’s June offerings are, as they have been for a while now, heavy on the original content. There’s some good stuff in there, too: OG true-crime phenomenon The Staircase debuts new episodes on June 8, Michelle…

Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where we take all the day’s smaller promos and teases, mash them into a thin, nutritious gruel, and feed it back to you through a tube. Today, we’ve got a starstruck Constance Wu, a bunch of wrestling maniacs, and an inappropriate use for a teapot, so let’s dive in.

Television provides so many units in which to appreciate the medium’s annual output. A series can leap to the forefront on the strengths of a single great season; if it’s running as part of the traditional broadcast calendar, those accolades might have two halves of separate seasons. Try as streaming services and…

The 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are out, and the frontrunners will be familiar to anyone who’s watched premium cable, independent films, or just looked over the Golden Globes nominees this year. Big Little Lies and Three Billboards In Ebbing, Missouri lead their respective packs, with the HBO drama…

GLOWopens with a dynamic and evocative introduction to the world of women’s wrestling. Set to Scandal’s “The Warrior,” the title sequence uses rotoscoped, neon imagery to visualize the distinctly feminized spectacle that the Netflix series both captures and subverts over the course of its first season. I was already…

The first season of Netflix’s GLOW charted the formation of the eponymous all-female wrestling league in 1980s Los Angeles, and nowDeadline reports that the streaming service is giving the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling another chance to show off their skills in the ring. Beyond that, there’s not much in the way of…

It’s pretty impressive to look at where GLOW began and see it how it all turned into what we have in the season finale. Sam’s coked up vision for G.L.O.W. was obviously something special and shiny, but while we definitely get special and shiny here, it’s clearly not the same. Though, what we get here is something…

Despite the looming depression G.L.O.W. possibly never coming to fruition and everyone proving themselves the failures that society and their families believe them to be, “The Liberal Chokehold” manages to be a pretty fun episode of GLOW. There’s somewhat of a perceived lack of true conflict at this particular point,…

So late in the season, it might be surprising that GLOW does an episode with absolutely no wrestling. Especially after the disaster that was the wrestling match in “Live Studio Audience.” Sure, we have Sam’s verbal visualization for what the G.L.O.W. pilot will be like, but even the short amount of gym time in this…

Wrestle like nobody’s watching. For myriad reasons, that’s not actually a professional wrestling saying—not even with regards to Empty Arena matches—but instead, it’s more about playing to your audience. So what exactly do you do when your audience is 20 to 30 non-paying “customers,” best described as “freaks, some…

I could barely form the thought, “I absolutely loved that episode of GLOW,” before I saw the episode’s writing credit. Then with that realization, I actually said to myself, “That makes the most sense ever.” (Please note that I censored myself in this story. For the children.) “This Is One Of Those Moments” isn’t just…

Credit where credit’s due: It’s already good enough that GLOW’s fifth episode, “Debbie Does Something,” is titled in reference to a ‘70s/‘80s porn series. But then the show makes sure to live up to the episode title, as this is also the episode where Debbie gets some—an instantly memorable moment from the GLOW …

I’ll be honest: As far as I know, no one in the actual G.L.O.W. had a personality like Sheila the She Wolf. There are obviously reports of some of the women getting and staying more into character than others, but that was par for the course when it came to professional wrestling kayfabe in the 1980s. So while there…

In my previous review, I wrote that GLOW’s second episode feels so much like the second half of the episode that the pilot itself feels weaker as a result. The greatest reason being that “Slouch. Submit.” doesn’t follow the typical second episode structure of simply being a more polished retread of the pilot. Instead,…

“Interesting anecdotes don’t always make for interesting movies; your story may kill at parties, but that doesn’t mean it belongs on the big screen. In The Big Sick, stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who plays Dinesh on Silicon Valley, and Emily V. Gordon, the writer and former therapist he married, dramatize the…

One of the GLOW pilot’s funniest moments happens early on, in a line that’s not an obvious punchline but has a clear purpose: “Getting pregnant and written off that show—best decision I ever made.” It’s funny because it’s sad; it’s not even really presented as a joke the same way Ruth’s (Alison Brie) opening audition…